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Phoenician colonies coexisted with Greek cities in Cyprus and Sicily, but excluded Greeks on Sardinia and Corsica, in the south of Spain, and especially along North Africa.

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But after all this, we may then ask, that if trade is to be associated with the origin of philosophy, why did not philosophy start with the Phoenicians?

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The largest modern cities derived from Greek colonies are probably Marseille in France (Massilia), in Italy (Neapolis, the "New City" -- remembered in the name of "Neapolitan" icecream), and Istanbul (originally Byzantion, later Constantinopolis -- ).

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After some conflict and the rule of tyrants (especially Pisitratus), overthrown in 510, Cleisthenes led Athens into essentially pure democracy [].

Note 5The origin of the word "Phoenician" is a matter of interest.

On the other hand, Smyth also says that the word in Latin may derive from , , "a Boeotian tribe that took part in the colonization of Cyme in Italy, or from the , a larger tribe of the same stock that lived in Eprius" [].

was originally the title of a book, by Aristotle.

Indeed, it is a distressing and sobering new truth of history, little suspected before our time, that a vast educated class may, by its very nature, be hostile to freedom, democracy, and the creation of wealth for everyone -- though China was similarly ill served by the scholar .

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Phoenician trading posts in Greece itself, reflected even in Greek mythology with stories like the foundation of Thebes by the Phoenician Cadmus, initiated Greek trading in the years after about 800 BC.